Capacity Quote by Terry Southern

“I’m certain I’ve written things that have offended people, yes – but no, I have never written anything for the sake of shock. Shock…

— Alistair Cross

What's great about well-written material is, if you can shock with justifiable actions, that's the best.

— Bryan Cranston

“How can anyone underestimate the ballistic quality of words? Invisible things happen in intangible moments. What should keep us writing is precisely that possibility…

— Miguel Syjuco

Good writing is like a bomb: it explodes in the face of the reader.

— Nuruddin Farah

“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.”

— Hemingway, Ernest

I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion.

— Edna Ferber

Words matter, particularly when you're writing a story that could significantly damage a person's or an organization's reputation.

— Jason Whitlock

The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.

— Willa Cather

Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable.

— Helene Cixous

My favorite thing to write is people under pressure in high-stakes circumstances.

— Terence Winter

“A writer writes knowing that nothing else will elicit the same kind of satisfaction and personal triumph as molding the written word into a…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

It's always struck me as unfair that writing has so little sensation when it's going well.

— Francis Spufford